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Lee B, Kang W, Oh SH, Cho S, Shin I, Oh EJ, Kim YJ, Ahn JS, Yook JM, Jung SJ, Lim JH, Kim YL, Cho JH, Oh WY. In vivo imaging of renal microvasculature in a murine ischemia-reperfusion injury model using optical coherence tomography angiography. Sci Rep 2023; 13:6396. [PMID: 37076541 PMCID: PMC10115874 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33295-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) provides three-dimensional structural and semiquantitative imaging of microvasculature in vivo. We developed an OCTA imaging protocol for a murine kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) model to investigate the correlation between renal microvascular changes and ischemic damage. Mice were divided into mild and moderate IRI groups according to the duration of ischemia (10 and 35 mins, respectively). Each animal was imaged at baseline; during ischemia; and at 1, 15, 30, 45, and 60 mins after ischemia. Amplitude decorrelation OCTA images were constructed with 1.5-, 3.0-, and 5.8-ms interscan times, to calculate the semiquantitative flow index in the superficial (50-70 μm) and the deep (220-340 μm) capillaries of the renal cortex. The mild IRI group showed no significant flow index change in both the superfial and the deep layers. The moderate IRI group showed a significantly decreased flow index from 15 and 45 mins in the superficial and deep layers, respectively. Seven weeks after IRI induction, the moderate IRI group showed lower kidney function and higher collagen deposition than the mild IRI group. OCTA imaging of the murine IRI model revealed changes in superficial blood flow after ischemic injury. A more pronounced decrease in superficial blood flow than in deep blood flow was associated with sustained dysfunction after IRI. Further investigation on post-IRI renal microvascular response using OCTA may improve our understanding of the relationship between the degree of ischemic insult and kidney function.
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- ByungKun Lee
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- KI for Health Science and Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- KI for Health Science and Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- KI for Health Science and Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- KI for Health Science and Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea
- Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
- Cell and Matrix Research Institute, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
- KI for Health Science and Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
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Moradi M, Du X, Huan T, Chen Y. Feasibility of the soft attention-based models for automatic segmentation of OCT kidney images. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 13:2728-2738. [PMID: 35774323 PMCID: PMC9203082 DOI: 10.1364/boe.449942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Revised: 01/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Clinically, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been utilized to obtain the images of the kidney's proximal convoluted tubules (PCTs), which can be used to quantify the morphometric parameters such as tubular density and diameter. Such parameters are useful for evaluating the status of the donor kidney for transplant. Quantifying PCTs from OCT images by human readers is a time-consuming and tedious process. Despite the fact that conventional deep learning models such as conventional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in the automatic segmentation of kidney OCT images, gaps remain regarding the segmentation accuracy and reliability. Attention-based deep learning model has benefits over regular CNNs as it is intended to focus on the relevant part of the image and extract features for those regions. This paper aims at developing an Attention-based UNET model for automatic image analysis, pattern recognition, and segmentation of kidney OCT images. We evaluated five methods including the Residual-Attention-UNET, Attention-UNET, standard UNET, Residual UNET, and fully convolutional neural network using 14403 OCT images from 169 transplant kidneys for training and testing. Our results show that Residual-Attention-UNET outperformed the other four methods in segmentation by showing the highest values of all the six metrics including dice score (0.81 ± 0.01), intersection over union (IOU, 0.83 ± 0.02), specificity (0.84 ± 0.02), recall (0.82 ± 0.03), precision (0.81 ± 0.01), and accuracy (0.98 ± 0.08). Our results also show that the performance of the Residual-Attention-UNET is equivalent to the human manual segmentation (dice score = 0.84 ± 0.05). Residual-Attention-UNET and Attention-UNET also demonstrated good performance when trained on a small dataset (3456 images) whereas the performance of the other three methods dropped dramatically. In conclusion, our results suggested that the soft Attention-based models and specifically Residual-Attention-UNET are powerful and reliable methods for tubule lumen identification and segmentation and can help clinical evaluation of transplant kidney viability as fast and accurate as possible.
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- Mousa Moradi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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Su CH, Hsu YC, Thangudu S, Chen WY, Huang YT, Yu CC, Shih YH, Wang CJ, Lin CL. Application of multiparametric MR imaging to predict the diversification of renal function in miR29a-mediated diabetic nephropathy. Sci Rep 2021; 11:1909. [PMID: 33479331 PMCID: PMC7820287 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81519-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the major leading cause of kidney failure. To identify the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), renal function/fibrosis is playing a crucial role. Unfortunately, lack of sensitivities/specificities of available clinical biomarkers are key major issues for practical healthcare applications to identify the renal functions/fibrosis in the early stage of DN. Thus, there is an emerging approach such as therapeutic or diagnostic are highly desired to conquer the CKD at earlier stages. Herein, we applied and examined the application of dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) to identify the progression of fibrosis between wild type (WT) and miR29a transgenic (Tg) mice during streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes. Further, we also validate the potential renoprotective role of miR29a to maintain the renal perfusion, volume, and function. In addition, Ktrans values of DCE-MRI and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of DWI could significantly reflect the level of fibrosis between WT and Tg mice at identical conditions. As a result, we strongly believed that the present non-invasive MR imaging platforms have potential to serveas an important tool in research and clinical imaging for renal fibrosis in diabetes, and that microenvironmental changes could be identified by MR imaging acquisition prior to histological biopsy and diabetic podocyte dysfunction.
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- Chia-Hao Su
- Institute for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 6 West, Chia-Pu Road, Putzu City, Chiayi, Taiwan
- Kidney Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Institute for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 6 West, Chia-Pu Road, Putzu City, Chiayi, Taiwan
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- Institute for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 6 West, Chia-Pu Road, Putzu City, Chiayi, Taiwan
- Kidney Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Research, Center for Shockwave Medicine and Tissue Engineering, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 6 West, Chia-Pu Road, Putzu City, Chiayi, Taiwan.
- Kidney Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
- College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Department of Medical Research, Center for Shockwave Medicine and Tissue Engineering, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Konkel B, Lavin C, Wu TT, Anderson E, Iwamoto A, Rashid H, Gaitian B, Boone J, Cooper M, Abrams P, Gilbert A, Tang Q, Levi M, Fujimoto JG, Andrews P, Chen Y. Fully automated analysis of OCT imaging of human kidneys for prediction of post-transplant function. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 10:1794-1821. [PMID: 31086705 PMCID: PMC6485011 DOI: 10.1364/boe.10.001794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Revised: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
Current measures for assessing the viability of donor kidneys are lacking. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can image subsurface tissue morphology to supplement current measures and potentially improve prediction of post-transplant function. OCT imaging was performed on donor kidneys before and immediately after implantation during 169 human kidney transplant surgeries. A system for automated image analysis was developed to measure structural parameters of the kidney's proximal convoluted tubules (PCTs) visualized in the OCT images. The association of these structural parameters with post-transplant function was investigated. This study included kidneys from live and deceased donors. 88 deceased donor kidneys in this study were stored by static cold storage (SCS) and an additional 15 were preserved by hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP). A subset of both SCS and HMP deceased donor kidneys were classified as expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys, with elevated risk of poor post-transplant function. Post-transplant function was characterized as either immediate graft function (IGF) or delayed graft function (DGF). In ECD kidneys stored by SCS, increased PCT lumen diameter was found to predict DGF both prior to implantation and following reperfusion. In SCD kidneys preserved by HMP, reduced distance between adjacent lumen following reperfusion was found to predict DGF. Results suggest that OCT measurements may be useful for predicting post-transplant function in ECD kidneys and kidneys stored by HMP. OCT analysis of donor kidneys may aid in allocation of kidneys to expand the donor pool as well as help predict post-transplant function in transplanted kidneys to inform post-operative care.
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- Brandon Konkel
- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd NW, Washington DC, 20007, USA
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- Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Li Z, Tang Q, Dickfeld T, Chen Y. Depth-resolved mapping of muscular bundles in myocardium pulmonary junction using optical coherence tomography. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2018; 23:1-5. [PMID: 29981228 PMCID: PMC8357322 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.23.7.076004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and has high patient morbidity. One of the root causes of AF is initiating triggers from atrial myocardium extending into the pulmonary veins. Visualizing the muscular bundles of myocardial extension is essential to guide the catheter radio-frequency ablation and confirm the curative tissue necrosis thereafter. We applied optical coherence tomography (OCT) for direct visualization of cardial muscle extension in myocardium pulmonary junction. Two perspectives (cross-sectional and en face images) are presented for imaging myocardial extensions. The results demonstrated that cross-sectional images can quickly locate the myocardium pulmonary junction. And en face images provide depth-resolved arrangement information of muscular bundles in the myocardium pulmonary junction. The results indicated that OCT could potentially be used to guide catheter radio-frequency ablation for treatment of AF.
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- Zhifang Li
- Ministry of Education, Fujian Normal University, College of Photonic and Electronic Engineering, Fujian Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Photoelectric Sensing Application, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Science and Technology for Medicine, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Photonics Technology, Fuzhou, China
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- University of Maryland, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, College Park, Maryland, United States
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- University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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- Ministry of Education, Fujian Normal University, College of Photonic and Electronic Engineering, Fujian Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Photoelectric Sensing Application, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Science and Technology for Medicine, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Photonics Technology, Fuzhou, China
- University of Maryland, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, College Park, Maryland, United States
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